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'Bush Did It' Is Not a Foreign Policy

Brencis Wrote: Jun 17, 2010 5:29 PM

What the current American government just doesn't understand is that much of the world's regimes don't function with the same values of
Western nations. Appeasement, generosity and support are seen as weakness. Hamas didn't see Israel's pulling out of Gaza as anything but weakness. S Korea's billion dollar payments to the North is nothing but weakness in JongIl's eyes. and so forth...

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'Bush Did It' Is Not a Foreign Policy

Not being George W. Bush while apologizing for America's purported sins is not a foreign policy.

Ronald Reagan came into office with the idea of rolling back the Soviet Union. Reagan hoped that such an evil empire might collapse from its inability to match a newly confident United States.

George H.W. Bush sought to oversee a peaceful dissolution of the Soviet empire, the reunification of Germany, and a new Western-led world order that thugs such as Manuel Noriega or Saddam Hussein could not disrupt.